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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1939

W E think, and hope, we see signs that President Roose- : velt’s excursion into secret diplomacy will prove brief.. he will fall back on the philosophy which he himself so ably expressed in Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1936,

‘when he said:

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«But all the wisdom of America is not to be found in the White House or in the Department of State; we need

- ‘the meditation, the prayer and the positive support of the

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“American people who go along

with us in seeking peace.” Or, as Talleyrand put it: “There is one person who

“knows more than anybody—and that is everybody.”

Democracy is founded on that idea.

"DIES COMMITTEE GOES ON |

Es THE House of Representatives at Washington has voted,

344 to 35, to continue for one year the Dies Committee’s

“investigation of un-American activities.

Such overwhelming support reflects, we believe, strong sentiment throughout the country for finding out all that ~ ean be found about what agents and propagandists for the ~ «jsmocracies” are doing in the United States. Many citizens feel that the Dies Committee’s procedure ~ has been, in many respects, unfortunate. In our opinion,

the committee has lessened its own usefulness by its meth-

- ods. But the 10-to-one vote in the House certainly means

that the Congressmen are convinced that most of their

_ constituents want somebody to keep throwing light on the ~ subversive tactics of Communists, Fascists and other ene‘mies of democracy. | We're glad to see that Chairman Martin Dies gave the House his pledge that in the future ‘his committee will “recognize the mistakes that were made and do everything "in its power to conduct a fair, fearless investigation.” If that pledge is kept, the Dies Committee can do the country _ a valuable service.

--A WORD FOR THE OWNER - YN his running strafe on the press President Roosevelt “~~ * takes pains to put the blame on the owners. His attitude _ toward the Washington correspondents in his White House

conferences is one of “you boys are all right but those who

own the papers you work for are wicked,” the point seeming to be that if some way could be devised to eliminate

~~ ownership everything would be lovely.

In the latest episode Mr. Roosevelt's hackles rose more sharply than usual. The lie direct was hurled, Franklin stepping way. beyond the more figurative Ananias club

“phraseology favored by Roosevelt the first.

Knowing something of the circumstances of Washington newsgathering, we feel that a word in behalf of the

: “much put-upon owner might be in place.

: A secret conference had been held between the Presi“dent and the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Alto- - gether 17 had been summoned. When that many of varying political faiths are gathered together, secrecy becomes

a case of “only the five of us will know about it.” About

"as many leaks developed as there are in a sieve. Sundry

versions of what was said were quickly garnered by the “correspondents from this and that and the other Senator.

Anyway, Mr. Roosevelt got mad to the name-calling

. stage—and talked rather tall and tactless about lies and

_ boobs. And once again he blamed the owners.

But the owners didn’t cover the story. Here's one "time where the owners can prove an alibi. They just natu- ~ rally weren't on the job.

POLITICS AND COURTS

UNITED STATES Senate committee has voted, 15 to 3, that Floyd H. Roberts of Virginia should not be

confirmed as a Federal judge. As many as 70 of the 96

- Senators are said to be ready to approve the report.

What explains this overwhelming opposition? Did the

“committee make a searching examination and find

Mr. Roberts unfit for the bench? Not at all. The committee, _ in a brief session, heard a number of reputable witnesses “ say he is a man of character and ability and has been a ~~ good state judge. It heard nothing against him. The only

* reason for rejecting him is that his appointment was - “personally offensive and obnoxious” to the Virginia

Senators, Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd. : These two had other candidates for this judgeship.

“President. Roosevelt disregarded them and nominated “Mr. Roberts. So ‘Carter Glass took the warpath. Invoking

“the unwritten rule of '“Senatorial courtesy,” he appealed to other members of that exceedingly clubby body, the

* Senate, to accept his personal reasons for objecting and, ~~ apparently a large majority of the Senators accept those

reasons, +00, although for all they know to the contrary

~The Constitution says that the President shall appoint ~ judges by and with “the advice and consent of the Senate” —

“not the advice and consent of twd Senators from a single _ state. For the Senate to turn down an appointee, knowing

* nothing against him except that two Senators have a

¢ personal quarrel with the President, seems to us unfair and

': dangerous. : wi %. Assume that the President made a purely political

appointment. Unless two wrongs make a right, that does . not justify the Senate in a purely political rejection. By - such processes neither the President nor the Senate con-

tributes to that public confidence in the courts, as to the "need of which so much has been said lately.

SOLVED?, i = A GOOD many people have given much thought to the ~#* problem of how to make productive use of our increas: ing leisure time. Maybe Harold Ryder of Waikato, New * Zealand, has found a solution. |

Mr. Ryder, facing a long spell in a hospital, took ¢

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Naziism and Bolshevism Being as

Alike as Two Peas, Sympathy Is in Order for the German Capitalists.

EW YORK, Feb. 4—Most American writers who have inspected Hitlerism in Germany have agreed, on returning here, that the prize suckers of the plot were the German capitalists, businessmen and aristocrats who thought Herr Hitler would

seemed to think so, too. Possibly they honestly did think so, for a Bolo might conceivably be honest by mistake, and Hitler developed his system by degrees, borrowing from Bolshevism as he went along, But after they had boosted Herr. Hitler to power

papular with the Bolo-Nazi-Fascists in this country, discovered that he had given them Bolshevism as a protection against Bolshevism. It was homemade Bolshevism but the ingredients were the same, and

slight variation in some proportions. : Yet, because Hitler constantly screamed against Bolshevism and called his racket national socialism, most of us here were slow to detect the sameness. Moreover, our own Bolsheviks denounced as delib= erate substitution and dishonest practice every attempt to show that one product was as good, or as bad, as the other. ; = ® # : :

ND, be it said again, Herr Hitler developed - slowly. The trick was not new, being familiar in our rackets in which one gang compels a merchant to kick in for protection against another gang which may not even exist or, if it does exist, may operate exclusively in another neighborhood, ‘way on the other side of town. German capitalists are allowed to think they control their property as long as they do not attempt to exercise control or take down profits beyond the amounts fixed by the state as compensation for their work. They may enjoy the sensation of expansion, if

the increase isn’t theirs, either. the property. And only recently, in a story about the final extinction of the officer corps, Mr. Tolischus, of the New York Times, reported that an officer now enjoys no social superiority with his rank. He just has a better job in the Army than his subordinates. ” 8 ”

HE status of religion is no different in either

They just manage

now tell us that one may go to church in Russia if he can find a church and can take the punishment, while in Germany Christ is regarded as an internationalist, and church leaders have been persecuted, tossed into prison and even tossed out of windows. Moreover, Hitler hasn't fully developed his antichurch policy, and by the time he is through it probably will be just as hard to find a church in Germany as in Russia. In both countries people are staked to the land if they are farmers or chained to their appointed jobs, and the concentration or deportation camp and

‘the firing squad are equally familiar in both,

Every institution which the Bolsheviks praise as a virtue of the Bolo system in Russia is duplicated by Hitler's bolshevism, and it may be observed that if the Russians would adopt anti-Semitism, at which they were very able hands in the tsar’s time, or if the Germans would drop it, as they surely would without the constant artificial stimulus, the German

Bolsheviks and the Russians could fall into each other’s arms, crying “brother!” |

Business

By John T. Flynn |

Barter Methods of Germany a Bit Antiquated, but Perfectly Legal.

‘EW YORK, Feb. 4—One count in the American indictment against Germany is that she engages in barter with South America. Germany needs copper. Brazil has copper. Brazil needs planes. Germany has planes. The two countries therefore swap planes for copper. German workmen get work making the planes. Brazilian workmen are employed producing the copper. Each country gets what it wants. American critics of the Nazis tell us this is immoral, vicious and must be stopped. But would if not be well if Americans kept their heads? The Nazi Government has committed enough crimes. It can be attacked on them. We need not lose our sense of proportion to further indict it. After all, what is wrong with barter? It's a very clumsy way to do business. But it is in much wider use in America than we suppose. Trading is a good old-fashioned Yankee custom. ? At best it enables people to get rid of things they cannot sell. It cannot form the basis of an important merchandising activity. Germany’s use of the barter system is an emergency scheme, a desperate measure to get things she cannot buy with money and to sell things she cannot sell for money. That is all that it is. But the circumstances are interesting. This thing we know as the money economy came in about the 13th Century in a small way and in a larger way in the 15th. Before that, all through the Middle Ages business was done almost entirely by barter.

It's an Old Story |

Then from the 13th to the 15th Century something began to happen. Money had drifted into the world. It flowed in from little silver and gold mines and gradually accumulated and was made into coins in hundreds of little mints. And after a while there was a great deal of it. Then the workman wanted money for his wages and the farmer preferred money for his produce and the merchant insisted on money for his goods and the rulers demanded taxes in money rather than in services. : This was what was destroying the old feudal system—the money economy cracking up the barter economy because it was infinitely better, It still is. Now a little of this barter economy appears in South America and a lot of people get frightened for fear that it is going to break up the money economy. Something may one of these days crack up the capitalist system, but it will not be barter. Even Communist Russia sticks to the money economy, No better way than money has yet been invented for exchanging goods. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“x 70U bet we're backing them up. If we had anything to say about it we'd be asking for a whole lot more.” Ladies and gentlemen, meet the wife of a striker.

huge room where long tables were spread with food for ‘the workingmen’s families. * “mgverything you read

about us women begging our husbands not to go on a strike is a lie,” she assured me as she poured hot coffee into a long line of waiting cups. Moving to do her bidding, the other women acquiesced in her declaration. into their honest tired eyes, I felt something twist like a knife in my heart. ° Has there ever been anything so wonderful on earth as the loyalty of a woman for her man? Perhaps none of those wives had studied the labor question objectively. It touched their own lives too closely, and it would have been impossible for them to treat it as a large issue, involving millions of other individuals and the welfare of a whole nation, ' They were only plain hardworking women, who felt they had been cheated out of something and who knew their husbands were dissatisfied and bitter. And what their husbands wanted—they wanted. : Any philosopher will declare that it was merely another instance of prejudiced opinions. Right! But the same prejudiced opinion prevails in the group married to the owners of the plant where the strike is under way. They too are backing up their husbands, and with quite as much vehemence. In this, women are alike the world

protect them and treat them with special kindness. The Bolsheviks of this and other countries at first

the German princes of privilege, to use a term |

the only difference, aside from the labels, was a

they receive orders, or permission, to branch out, but

A country in any important respect, for our Bolos

She had a zip and sparkle that fairly crackled in the |

over. To every

.. | : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will * defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

POLITICAL TAMPERING IN CIVIL SERVICE FEARED By Watcher It is heartening to note that a

measure is being considered in the}

Legislature to place the 5000 state employees on a civil service basis. But may I express the hope that

the system be insured against poli-|

tical tampering? As it is now we have a situa’ where the official and his appc ees to an administrative office :. .

of their ability. Because the work of the office must be done, the official appoints a trained understudy to do it, and his work is continually subject to the veto of his untrained superior. This is especially true, by all accounts, in the Welfare Department: where all employees are supposed to be selected from civil service lists. One phase of the spoils system that is bad from any angle is the practice among some officials to appoint their wives as deputies, apparently for no other reason than to keep the money in the family. Neither may know anything about his job. But they hire trained graduates who do and pay them the clerks’ wage while drawing for themselves the larger salaries. But it isn’t fair. I trust this measure will not fail to pass. ; tJ 2 8 HUMANE TRAP BILL WINS APPROVAL By Mrs. C. B.

The splendid bill S124 introduced in the Senate by Senator Lee, to substitute a humane trap for taking fur bearing animals, instead of the standard steel trap now in use and to check traps at least once each day, surely will meet with the approval of every right-minded citizen, If the label “humanely trapped” could. be attached to the fur garment, how much more satisfactory this would be to all, to know the unnecessary suffering had been eliminated through ‘using the painless traps mentioned in the bill. 8 8 SEES GREATER PERIL TO U. 8. AT HOME By (Miss)"G. Roediger We constantly read in the papers about “foreign threats.” I do 1ilot know of a single definite threat that has yet been made by any foreign power, by suggestion or otherwise. Yet that is all we read in the papers today. It js a case of fearfully crossing a nonexistent, unsafe bridge before we come to it.

However, while we have been so but always to be blest.—Pope.

politicians and not chosen because

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

1sy worrying about an imaginary antastic “invasion from Mars” we have, over a period of some years, allowed a real threat to escape our attention. A spendthrift government has caused our national deficit to reach such proportions that it

may soon become expedient to di-

vert our attention catastrophe. 1 trust that Americans, with the aid of farseeing editors of newspapers, will not allow our attention to be drawn toward things not of our business because of dangerous conditions right in our own backJard (Peature writers please take note. . :

by some real

® » = OPPOSES OPENING GATES TO REFUGEES By Ted Steinkamp ‘

If’ we let more Jews into our America it won't be ours long. We Americans will have fewer jobs and less currency. :

And if I were a refugee, and left

SUNDAY’S FURROWS By HARLAN J. LEACH

Died gray on top, but humid underneath, : These furrows lie until another

day Shall add to them or set the harrow’s teeth Upon their ridges, them away.

smoothing

The fate of furrows rests on weather’s whims. ; Tomorrow may bring rain or snow or sleet. The farmer, in his church, repeats the hymns Of hope and faith—and makes his life complete.

DAILY THOUGHT

Why are thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in : for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenarice, and my God.—Psalms 43:5.

HE springs - eternal in the human breast; man never is,

my family behind, I would keep it quiet, because I wouldn't want anyone to know that I left my family in the fix that. is supposed to be prevailing in Germany. These sob stories of the Jews

|make me plenty hot. If they had

kept their place in Germany and not tried to control everything, they wouldn't have had any trouble. Why wish this on us? { ONLY 14 DEMOCRACIES LEFT IN WORLD, HE SAYS By Guy D. Sallee Dictators come into power because of political grafters, vice, inefficiency and apparent inability to handle popular government—although the dictators are many times more in-

efficient than the political grafters.| Woodrow Wilson dreamed of a world

safe for demoeracy, but the democratic countries he dreamed of are

in the ash can where he thought the emperors, kings and kaisers should be. A resume of the governments of the world shows there are only 14 remaining democracies, with a population of 298,536,698. Twenfy-ons nations have limited monarchy and a population of 488,300,558. Combining these two groups we have 35 nstions which could be called democracies, or nearly so. Forty-two of the 77 nations have been subjugated since 1917, with a population of 1,034,322,465. Think of what America -sacrificed when her healthy young men went to war to make the worlc, safe for democracy! - As more unrest sweeps our land shall we march to war? For what? For whom? Certainly not to collect more indiscreet Wall Street loans. Then for what? » 2 2

DOUBTS VACCINATION PREVENTS SMALLPOX By C.F. T. : I see by The Times that we are confronted once more with our annual smallpox scare. Quoting from The Times: “Survey of pupils being made in war on smallpox. The City Health Board will decide Friday

night whether to issue an order making smallpox vaccination compulsory. . .” . : By what authority are we compelled to submit our children fo the defiling inoculation of the vaccine virus? Does vaccination always

|prevent? Is it always safe? The

doctor receives money for vaccinating—dces he guarantee it as a preventive? Does he guarantee its safety? Can doctors truthfully give

an affirmative to any of the above

questions?

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‘husband is right—except when he is arrayed

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EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM.

2 ; WE STICK TO EFS Ih oI

Ghd PERE TOER

proper for a rich man to marry the rl of his choice, Whether she

when he marries a girl far richer than he is, it has all sorts of implications. With many men this is not justified. I know several wealthy women who have married pocr men and aided them to make great caveers. This is especially true where a wealthy wife has aided a husband to do fine work in science. ss 8 NO, unless our beliefs ae like w scientific beliefs, founded upon objective evidence. We all stick to our old emotionalized opinions and beliefs partly to save our faces from “back down” or being called 8 “change coat,” and partly out of sheer laziness that keeps us from reg our beliefs. Some people —yes, many people—are afraid to e their beliefs for fear they will fall out of the universe should they find themselves wrong. A ® = =

NO, The reason we cannot see

19 our own faults is that wo get in | the way of ourselves. It is w:ll-nigh

impossible for one to set lis own mind off and look at it clearly without getting his emotions, feers, inferiorities and egotisms som up. with himself that he doesnt know where he stands. But when looking

she be

at other people he can analy ze them

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Gen. Johnson

Says— Roosevelt Foreign #olicy May Be

What We Want, but We Must Have Plenty of Free Debate on It First.

EW YORK, Feb. 4—The power of the President in committing the country in foreign affairs at a critical period is indefinite but tremendous. I feel it heavily in writing this column. Having had, in the World War, an important part in the mobilization of both industry and manpower—having commanded a division of infantry—headed a department of the General Staff and participated in the international economic strategy of the War Industries Board, I

feel competent to comment on certain aspects of

this situation. ; On the basis of that experience, I do not agree with some of the action and some of the bases of ° action in the hot international situation of the moment. Yet, with the President engaged with Herr Hitler in what is at least a verbal war, I feel squeam-" ish about saying anything that might appear to weaken his position. : : : The closer we get toward real war from the present economic skirmishing, the more heavily this influence will bear until, when the guns begin it will be nearueason to be writing anything but “yes” and “hurra. > \ : . ® ” ® N other words, in any modern war, the democracies

must all become dictatorships. “Truth” as some-

| body said, “is the first casualty in any war.” The

nearer war comes, the nearer dictatorship approaches. We had an almost complete one in 1918. Mr. Wilson

began to liquidate it on the day after the Armistice. The Administration claims, as justification for moves that amount to abandonment of neutrality and actual engagement in economic war that, in critical . diplomacy, it must be prepared to meet each hostile move as it appears with a counter-move. This is the same old “quarterback policy” which it said it must have in the emergency of 1933. . . In war itself, the argument is incontestable. There Ingoubiedly is something in i at a critical time like this. : ‘But it is yet too early to abandon free discussion. The demand for such great personal discretion leaves something very important unsaid. Such moves must be guided by a basic policy. The great undecided question just now is “Are we still s neutral nation or have we allied ourselves with Great: Britain and France?” 2 8 : OSTILE economic pressure on a nation with whom we are at peace is not neutrality. It is a

form of war and can be g very deadly or even decisive -

form of war. This Administration seems definitely |

and openly to have adopted it as a course of action in favor x Great Britain and France against Germany and Italy.

It is the constitutional duty of Congress and not

the President to make such a decision. Congress had addressed the problem and decided for neutrality. The necessary freedom and discretion of the President to deal with foreign affairs certainly does not extend to any such lengths as the Administration has gone. The President's action may be wise. If may receive the support of Congress and the country and their ratification. It hasn’t had that yet. It couldn’t: have had it because it has been secret. The way to determine that is to propose an amendment of the neutrality act giving the President the authority he is exercising. Then Congress will be responsible if it should lead to war.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams Robot Planes to Be Used by Army

As Targets for Antiaircraft Forces,

(Heywood Broun Is on Vacation) 2

I HAVE always liked Reginald Denny in his movie roles, and now this gentleman of artful humor rises for serious consideration as a far-sighted aviation businessman. ”

Some time ago reports came from California that #

Mr. Denny was building robo:, radio-controlled target airplanes. The British have been using flying targets of this type for years. The British Navy had a terrible

time hitting their Queen Bee targets. The score was disastrous. The antiaircraft gunners had an equally»

miserable time knocking the little robots out of the sky. I first learned of this realistic target practice when in Europe some years ago, enthusiastic suggestions that our Army and Navy antiaircraft gunners be given some kind of such live ducks to shoot at. The Navy igncred the challenge. The Army, however, has decided to tackle the job of actually shooting at six of Reginald Denny’s radio-controlled - airplanes. Three of these planes are to be given to the Army Coast Defense units and the remaining three to the Air Corps.

Mr. Denny's ships have wing spreads of about 12 #

feet, and fuselages about eight feet long, They will cruise about 75 miles an hour, with an altitude ceiling of approximately 8000 feet. “The takeoff of these little teasers will be by catapulting. take over from there.

Real Games in Prospect

This may bring the end of “framed”. antiaircraft .

shooting matches. The usual stunt is to tow a sleeve * target behind airplanes. The pilot of the towing plane receives his orders about the altitude, compass course and speed at which the procession is su to pass within range of the ‘‘“Dead-Eye-Dicks” on ground. And somehow or other those orders leak o to the antiaircraft gunners via the moccasin trail. \ Even at that, the usual score is worse than the Navy's marksmanship during the Eipanish-American War.

While the Coast Defense gunners are burning ®

powder on their three-target planes, the Air Corps people will be running real tests that are staged under conditions most likely to be encountered in the event of an actual air attack. . The Army aerial -¢ gunners, in single-seater fighters and other airplanes, will have some real practice with comparatively real

targets. : Meanwhile, our scientists may develop Mr. Denny's.

jobs into bombers that can be controlled by radio from ® another ship in the air. When this comes to pass, we will have an air war weapon that will tax the imagination of mankind. \

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

N winter the ice, the cold and exposure to snow and rain are likely to produce severe effects on’ skins not properly protected. The least of the disturbances is a redness of nose. The color scheme is aided by those people who furn The commonest complaint is ness of the skin, and perheps the most serious next to frost bite is the chilblain. dn Dry skins are usually those which are called “fine.” In the dry skin the fat content is little, Furthermore, there is little perspiration on dry

skin because the glands are smaller and ess in §

amount. J The obvious answer to the bad effects of the dry skin is protectien of the skin 1 of suitable fats. It is not possible to protect ; skin by taking large amounts of fat in : cause the difficulty lies with the glands that are the skin and not with the fat that is in the Therefore, the dry skin is supplied with fat by

People with of alcoholic and astringent certainly increase the drynsss. The | and creams used on & dry skin chosen individually. ~~ ‘People whose lips chap be prevent this condition by applying a or an oily lipstick to the lips to, the cold. A bad

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